Anna Rose MacArthur
Anna Rose MacArthur served as KYUK's News Director from 2015-2022. She got her start reporting at KNOM in Nome, Alaska and then traveled south to report with KRTS in Marfa, Texas. Anna Rose soon missed rural Alaska and returned to join KYUK in 2015. She leaded an award-winning newsroom and launched statewide public radio reporting collaborations. Her journalism has received a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award and statewide awards for coverage on climate change, health, business, education, and mushing. Anna Rose’s favorite stories to tell include a muskox, salmon, or sled dog. Her work has appeared on NPR, 99 Percent Invisible, HowSound, and Transom. She was a 2020 fellow in the Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative, a partnership between the CPB and Arizona State University Cronkite School of Journalism. Anna Rose is a Transom Story Workshop alumni.
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On the Yukon River, both the fall chum and the coho salmon are nearing the ends of their runs. State biologists do not expect either to reach their goals for fish reaching their spawning grounds.
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The Kuskowkim River Salmon Management Working Group unanimously passed a motion asking the state to open the upper river above Aniak to gillnets for 24 hours once a week until the closure ends on Sept. 15.
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Both species' body lengths are also returning smaller on average than past runs.
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Eligible residents who are wanting to fill the fourth seat can submit a city council filing packet to register as a write-in candidate by Sept. 29 at 5 p.m.
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With the run the lowest it’s been in decades and unlikely to meet state escapement goals, managers have refused local residents' requests to loosen restrictions.
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Upper river residents say that their harvest would not have a large impact on what is on track to be the lowest Kuskokwim silver run on record.
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Anticipated federal action could still allow for some subsistence openings in the lower river.
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Nome residents had two main asks for North Pacific Fisheries Management Council members. First, to reduce salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea fisheries to zero. Second, to create tribally designated seats on the council.
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The state has chosen to relax restrictions since most of the chinook and chum run has passed through the lower river. So has the sockeye run.
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The handoff will occur at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, July 21.